Brake-beam safety support



A. E. OSTRANDER.

BRAKE BEAM SAFETY SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2I 1920.

1305429, Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALLEN E. OSTRANDER, residing at Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, and belng a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Brake-Beam Safety Support, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to-which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited tothe exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof within the scope of the claims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved brake beamsafetysupport as applied to the spring plank of a truck, the truck bolster, spring plank and brake beam compression member being shown in section;

Figure 2 is a plan view of one end of the spring plank with the brake beam safety support applied;

Figure 3 is a View on a larger scale of the partof Fig. 2 that includes the brake beam safety support; and

Figure 4 is a section on the line 4l4 of Fig. 3. 7

It is the object of my invention to provide an improved brake beam safety support that may be readily applied to car trucks now in service and that will be eflicient in operation.

My invention comprises, in addition to the usual truck bolster 1, spring plank 2 and brake beams having the compression members 3 and tension members 4, an angle bar member 5 having one flange engaging over the portion 6 of the web of the channel shaped spring plank that is out free from the web on three sides and then bent so as to lie in a plane parallel to the plane of the web but spaced therefrom sufliciently to receive the flange of the angle bar member. Bolts 7 passing through the angle bar member 5 and the web of the spring plank 2 serve to hold the member 5 in position on the portion 6 of the web. WVhen in place, the angle bar member 5 has one flange resting on the de ressed portion 6 and engaging the underside 'of the spring plank and the ends of the member 5 being bent upwardly, as shown in Fig. 1, pass close BRAKE-BEAM SAFETY SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d F b, *7, 1922, Application filed June 2,

1920. Serial No. 385,990.

beneath the compression members 3 and tension members I of the brake beam; While but one end of the spring plank 2 is shown with a brake beam safety support attached it is to be understood that a support 5 is provided for each end of the spring plank;

What I claim is:

1. In a railway car truck, a spring plank having a portion of its web out free on three sides and bent to lie in a plane parallel to the plane of the web and a brake beam safety support having one flange carried be- JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAR OF NEW YORK, N.-Y., A. CORPORATION OF JERSEY.

4. In a railway car truck a spring plank having aweb, supporting lugs punched from the web and a brake beam safety support adapted to be engaged with said lugs by a movement longitudinally of the spring plank. Y

5. In a'railway car truck, a spring plank havlng a web, supportlng lugs, free at one I end and retaining thethickness of the web, punched from said web and a brake beam safety support adapted to engage said lugs and webs. V

6. In a railway cartruck, a spring plank havinga web, supporting lugs, free at one end and retaining the thickness of the web,

punched from said web and a brake beam safety support adapted to be engaged with said lugs by a movementlongitudinally of the spring plank.

In a rallway car truck, a spring plank;

having lugs integral therewith'and a brake beam safety support adapted to be engaged with said lugs by a movement longitudinally of the spring plank- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses,

ALLEN E. OSTRANDER.

Witnesses:

LEO V. J oron, BESSIE D. STRONG.

, 70 2.;In a railway car truck, a spring plank 

